The best way to describe Apple rumors is: when it rains, it pours. We have had a nice dose of continual iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 rumors, such as the recent claim that a 5-inch iPhone 6 has been spotted. There are also regular claims...
For all the great things Microsoft has done for the world (and mind you, they have done some great things — nobody can rightly deny that, regardless of how much you hate Microsoft), they get a lot of crap from a lot of peopl...
Having family that lives in other parts of the world, since a kid I have been a regular traveler by air. I remember when I was younger we were allowed to carry two checked-in bags weighing 70 lbs each, didn’t have to pay ext...
With so many hacking incidents hitting the headlines recently, and with many of them being blamed (directly or indirectly) on Chinese hackers, it was only a matter of time before someone cooked up a joke about it all, right? Well ...
Sometimes the comics we feature on dotTech are funny; other times, they are not. Today I have a comic that I am sure will make you laugh. I quite literally laughed out loud when I read it. Before I show you the comic, let me expla...
If you are reading dotTech, you are a geek. You may not know it, but you are. That doesn’t mean you are necessarily a hardcore geek, but the fact that you are reading a tech blog means there is some geek inside you. Want to ...
As dotTech has reported, RIM has had a busy few days. Not only is RIM no longer RIM but rather ‘BlackBerry’, RIM also introduced a brand new mobile operating system (BlackBerry 10) and two brand new phones, BlackBerry ...
How many dotTechies are married? My guess is a good majority of us are. I am and, as I have made so ever abundantly clear, I have the best, most beautiful wife in the world. (Sorry guys, the truth hurts.) And I’m not just sa...
As I have said time and time again, I don’t social network. No Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. for me aside from profiles for dotTech. (I do LinkedIn but that is for professional purposes and not really a social network in ...
We have already seen a scientifically-backed hypothesis that technology has made us more stupid. Maybe one of the reasons why we are more stupid is because technology gets between us and our daily dose of sleep. I mean, how many p...
Pirating, Illegal downloading, Pirating, Illegal downloading. Are they one in the same? Most people would say “yes, they are”. Personally, I would agree. However, as the following comic humorously points out, if you wa...
I do not know about others, but when it comes to technology, I am prone to getting distracted easily. Indeed, I often find myself using my smartphone to do a specific task then end up roaming the internet for something completely ...
The general idea behind human growth, as a species, is that we build upon knowledge of the people that came before us to become smarter with every passing generation. And, to some degree, this is true; we have, and we do, indeed u...
How many dotTechies have, in the past, attempted to start a blog (emphasis on “attempted”)? How many dotTechies plan on starting a blog something in the near or distant future? If you are of the former group, then you ...
There are some phrases in the English language that you hear over and over. “Caught between a rock and a hard place” is one such phrase; it is so overused by now, it has become cliche yet people continue to say it̷...